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Patience for the simple ways that work

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Cerulean Sanctum on the problem with technological solutions to organic problems: Our churches launch some guaranteed program backed by the slickest marketing and the

How to Emerge Without Being Emerging

My latest column at Christian Week: Whenever someone tells me that the emerging church is a fad, I say that I hope so. As much as I appreciate some qualities of the emerging

Show me to my desk

I blame my brother Kevin for this. Last year we were talking about needing to re-shingle our roofs. Kevin is a firefighter but also does roofs on the side. He said, “Why don’